Catching up on Classics (and lots more!) discussion

BINGO

B1: Book From Our Group’s Shelf Prior to 2021
B2: Book That Has Been Made Into Film
B3: Booker Prize Winner
B4: Classic Romance
B5: Classic of Europe

I1: Classic Adventure
I2: Book Published or Written 1700 or earlier
I3: Classic Short Story Collection
I4: Book Published in the 19th Century
I5: New To Me Classic Author

N1: Nobel Laureate
N2: History or Historical Fiction
N3: Reader’s Choice
N4: Classic Satire or Comedy
N5: Newberry Medal Winner

G1: Classic Female Author
G2: Book Published in the 18th Century
G3: Nonfiction
G4: Book Published in the 20th Century
G5: Book From Another Book Club or Library List

O1: Classic of Africa
O2: Classic Mystery, Suspense, or Thriller
O3: Pulitzer Prize Winner
O4: 100 Must-Read Classics in Translation
O5: Book From Our Group’s 2021 Bookshelf

I think half of the fun is researching what to put into your Bingo challenge. I hope you enjoy the process!

Terry wrote: "I think half of the fun is researching what to put into your Bingo challenge. I hope you enjoy the process!"

Thanks 🙂.
Yes, it is.The best .Finding all the books fill in the BINGO.

But 2020 was a sad year for classics... I just couldn't engage with it...or lose myself in the books.. had to read great but HEA books to just escape .... we will see how next year turns out... 🤞

So happy to see you doing this challenge! Hopefully next year will bring you the perfect blend of classics to escape into. :-)

Thanks Kathleen... hoping and praying for a better year...🤞
2019 was so good ..I had such hopes for this year.. oh well ... life happened... hopefully next year will be a much much better one.

Glad you are doing the challenge. Hope you have fun!

I took off 2020 too for pretty much the same reason and am doing 4 challenges next year. Glad you are also participating again, Elena :-)

I can't wait to see what you pick Elena!

Thanks Sue, Brina and Katy...

Rebecca
The God of Small Things
The Travels of Ibn Batuta history
The Illiad
Death on the Nile
Nine Coaches Waiting romance? Or goosebumpish romance?
P.G. Wodehouse comedy
Short story collection : Interpreter of Maladies
Pulitzer prize : Angle of Repose, Interpreter of Maladies,
Newberry winner : Last Stop on Market Street
Nobel laureate The Fall,
European classic : french Père Goriot , Germinal
Classics in translation : The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches The Selected Poems of T'ao Ch'ien Memoirs of a Woman Doctor Faust
Classic satire : 1984
Classics Africa The Beautiful Ones Are Not Yet Born Naguib Mahfouz Things Fall Apart

Virginia woolf waves or orlando
Faulker?

Classic Adventure Scaramouche or The Long Ships

siriusedward, I and others have been doing a Virginia Woolf study. Right now we are reading Orlando. I am hoping to later read The Waves. Perhaps you will want to see if we read The Waves.

Thanks, Cynda.I will join you all.

siriusedward wrote: "Classic Adventure Scaramouche or The Long Ships"

Scaramouche was quite enjoyable, The Long Ships is on my list to read this coming year.

I'll be reading Scaramouche for that category as well, Elena. Seems to be a Sabatini year. As for Woolf, Waves if you want a challenge, Orlando if you want to have some fun.

Thats good to know Katy,thanks.
I started reading waves this year but couldn't get past the first 10 pages..the yearbeing what it was, I will try that first I think.And if its not working, I will read Orlando . Thanks,Aubrey.

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